Android: You can spend a long, long time looking for the perfect at-a-glance Android widget, with just the right calendar, weather, time, and date information—and maybe battery level, too. Or you can design your own, down to the smallest detail, with Minimalistic Text.

Many of you may already be familiar with Minimalistic Text from our Featured Home Screen series, in which it shows up frequently on your awesome customized home screen. Minimalistic Text is an apt name, as the app's defaults are very basic: a translucent black bar, with whatever text you want included. That "text" can be the time, written out or in numbers, military or 12-hour format, and the same goes for the date, weather variables, battery level, and other indicators (including support for popular scheduling apps Tasker and Locale). You decide the exact size of the widget, how many rows of text go onto each widget, and exactly how the text looks. With just a few minutes, I had a nice four-part widget up on my home screen. With better design skills and a few more minutes, you can have an almost Windows-Phone/Metro-style layout on your home screen, as seen in the app's screenshots.